1. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
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2. Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
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3. Modest Mouse - This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
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4. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
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5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
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6. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
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7. Beck - Odelay
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8. The Wrens - Secaucus
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9. Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats
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10. Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
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11. OutKast - ATLiens
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12. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
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13.…

1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
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2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
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3. Vijay Iyer Trio - Accelerando
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4. Django Django - Django Django
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5. Sleigh Bells - Reign Of Terror
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Best year of the decade.

1. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain http://cdn.zmemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/crooked-rain-crooked-rain-by-pavement_mll1cgkoq7sx_full.jpg
Pavement may still be messy, but it's a meaningful, musical messiness from the performance to the production: listen to how "Silence Kit" begins by falling into place with its layers of fuzz guitars, wah wahs, cowbells, thumping bass, and drum fills, how what initially seems random gives way into a lush Californian pop song. That's Crooked Rain a nutshell – what initially seems chaotic has purpose, leading listeners into the bittersweet heart and impish humor at the core of the album. Many bands attempted to replicate the…

1) Tom Waits - Bone Machine
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2) Sonic Youth - Dirty
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3) R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
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4) Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
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5) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
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6) Ride - Going Blank Again
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7) The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
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8) Dr. Dre - The Chronic
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9) Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
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10) Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
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11) Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
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12) PJ Harvey - Dry
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13) Bel Canto - Shimmering, Warm and…

I swear I could stare at the album arts for hours.

1. The Clash - London Calling
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Combat Rock. The Clash are undeniably Britain's greatest and most important punk band, and the main reason for this is because they were willing to test boundaries. The other band who come close, the Sex Pistols, were equally if not more believing in the punk ethos, of arrogance, of volume, of political disaffection, of attitude. The Sex Pistols had all of that, but they weren't smart. The Clash did MORE - they retained the furious energy of punk, but to it they…

1) Slint - Spiderland
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Spiderland is simply one of the most pioneering and amazing albums of all time. A tour de force from beginning to end, it signals a new way to make music, playing a huge role in the creation of "post-rock", and capturing the new musical emphasis on slow and piercing guitars, not loud voices; on expression, not aggression. The hushed whispers of Brian McMahan feel at the same time full of emotion and alienating, intriguing yet repelling. But perhaps the most accomplished playing comes from the drummer Britt Walford, who controls the intensity of the song…

15. The Antlers - Burst Apart
14. The Black Keys - El Camino
13. Wild Beasts - Smother
12. Braids - Native Speaker
11. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs

10. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq2_JR3KzaI
80 minutes of the most visceral hardcore punk, Fucked Up slap you on the face 17 times and then KO you with Lights Go Up, a simply amazing ending to an amazing album.

9. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
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A collection of 12 fine songs. From beginning to last it demands your attention, thanks in part to a huge…

1) Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
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"Ritual de lo Habitual served as Jane's Addiction's breakthrough to the mainstream in 1990 (going gold and reaching the Top 20), and remains one of rock's all-time sprawling masterpieces. While its predecessor, 1988's Nothing's Shocking, served as a fine introduction to the group, Ritual de lo Habitual proved to be even more daring; few (if any) alt-rock bands have composed a pair of epics that totaled nearly 20 minutes, let alone put them back to back for full dramatic effect. While the cheerful ditty "Been Caught Stealing" is the album's best-known…

1965 - Bob Dylan, Highway 61 revisited
1966 - Bob Dylan, Blonde On Blonde
1967 - Love, Forever Changes
1968 - The Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet
1969 - King Crimson, In The Court Of The Crimson King
1970 - Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo's Factory
1971 - Neil Young, After The Gold Rush
1972 - David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
1973 - Lou Reed, Berlin
1974 - Big Star, Radio City
1975 - Patti Smith, Horses
1976 - David Bowie,…